We have a SAN with 4 x Datastores. One of these data stores hold 3 x 2TB VMDK's that have been joined in windows to form a single 6TB Data volume.
If i wanted to back this up with Veeam, will I need an additional 6TB space on the datastore to create the snapshots, or does it not work that way?
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Re: How much space needed for snapshot
It depends of type of VMs you have in your environment. More specifically, the amount of changes they produce regularly. According to the best practices, it’s strongly recommended to have 10% free of datastore in case of general VM, and, at least, 20% in case of VM with high change rate (SQL, Exchange, etc).
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Re: How much space needed for snapshot
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So as a check, if I increase to say 10% space as it's only a file server, is there any danger if the snapshot were to fill the datastore, or would I be right in thinking it would throw up an error that it couldn't create the snapshot, then remove it?
So as a check, if I increase to say 10% space as it's only a file server, is there any danger if the snapshot were to fill the datastore, or would I be right in thinking it would throw up an error that it couldn't create the snapshot, then remove it?
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Re: How much space needed for snapshot
The job would throw an error, the snapshot would be merged.
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Re: How much space needed for snapshot
Also If you want to monitor VM snapshots and get notifications about orphaned snapshots, you can use Veeam ONE (part of Availability Suite).
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